Mass aconite poisoning from a mislabelled spice product
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: (aconite). Most cases of poisoning involve the improper processing of traditional Chinese medicine. We report a mass poisoning event caused by consumption of unprocessed aconite root powders mislabeled as sand ginger. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective case series of patients who presented to two hospitals in the Greater Toronto area with aconite poisoning from a chicken dish eaten at a local restaurant. Demographic, management, and outcome data were collected by review of the electronic medical record. RESULTS: Over an 8 h period, 11 patients presented to hospital with features of aconite poisoning. Symptoms began shortly after ingestion and included perioral paraesthesia (91%) and nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain (64%). In the hospital, the spectrum of illness varied from paraesthesia requiring no intervention (9%) to refractory ventricular dysrhythmias (73%) managed with infusions of sodium bicarbonate, amiodarone, and vasopressors. Two patients received mechanical ventilation for 48 h. No patients died. A public health investigation identified a mislabelled sand ginger spice product imported from China as the source of unprocessed aconite (aconitine 0.55%). DISCUSSION: With the increasing availability of internationally sourced spice products, such events are likely to recur. CONCLUSIONS: This series demonstrates the potential for mass aconite poisoning through contaminated food and highlights the critical role of poison centers and public health systems in responding to such events.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it